Taking Lives Unabridged Audio Author:Michael Pye Martin Arkenhout, a 17-year-old from Holland, takes a break from his studies to travel. Tall and skinny, Arkenhout looks and acts like any other youngster on vacation. However, he has a different idea of fun: murdering strangers along the way. He then steals their identities in an attempt to displace his own persona. Thus he can "invent himself"... more » whenever the urge strikes. Yet one personality is harder to maintain than all the others - that of Professor Christopher Hart, an art teacher with a special affection for Dutch art and, apparently, a love for valuable manuscripts. The theft of one such manuscript gains the special attention of a private investigator, John Costa. Martin Arkenhout must now pay his own price for the professor's purported crime, and is hotly pursued across the globe.« less